Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Whoo Hoo! California Strawberries are in season! I went to two local Farmer's Market for the last two weekends and more and more vendors are pulling out their red gems of deliciousness.

(And no, I'm not working for the California produce lobby with my recent posts of California goodness...but I need to remind myself of reasons why I love living in a land where I can't afford any real estate.)

I topped the 12 muffins with some sanding sugar for a nice crunch on top.

Inside view with lots of strawberry pieces.

These were okay, but there weren't my favorite muffin. I think it boils down to the fact that I like my strawberries raw or macerated in sugar...not baked. However, I do want to try a strawberry cupcake in the future. My banana wasn't terribly ripe, so that might have been an issue too. Why don't you give them a try and let me know how you do? :) Here's the recipe for Strawberry Banana Muffins from Joy of Baking!

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these muffins look so nie and colourful. I only made muffins with strawberries one and they were quite good but I bet these with banana are more moist and flavourful. Just to note is the recipe from Joy of baking cause The link says Joy of cooking.

Oh! I did something similar a few weeks ago . . . I took a banana bread recipe and substituted some of the oil with pureed strawberries. I thought the applesauce trick would work with strawberry and hey, it did!

I never got to try it, though, and I'm way more interested in recipes with considerable amounts of butter. I may have to give this a shot.

Wow - those look picture perfect! Just the right size, color - and I love the sanding sugar. Where do you get yours from? I have this "sanding sugar" that's more of a large, granule that you can practically crack a filling off of. Lucky to get strawberries so early! They look fantastic!

Oh my gosh, you are blowing me away with the incredible contrast in all your photos, fresh strawberries in fresh muffins... they used to be my fav and still are (sadly the last strawberry muffin I had was by a box.. boo)